The+Bank



**THE BANK**

The bank is portrayed as a Frankenstein-like monster in the novel. Men created it to control currency issues and then it spiraled out of control and landed the country in a depression. Now it is seen as a robber, taking the land away from farmers. However, the bank isn't seen as the people who run it, but as its own entity, which displays no emotion, because if it did, they wouldn't be able to take away the land. Despite this hatred for the banks, the tenants begin to realize that the bank has no choice but to kick them off the land. The banks are losing all their moeny during this time and without the land they will be forced to close.


 * The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.**


 * The driver said: "Fellow was telling me the bank gets orders from the East. The orders were: "Make the land show profit or we'll close you up."**
 * "But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don't aim to starve to death before I kill the man that's starving me."**


 * They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. [referring to the banks]**